Calls for Papers of Interest to WiG Members
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last updated Dec. 17th, 2007
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Calls for Papers
calls are listed in chronological order, with the earliest deadline listed first
Was nun? Future directions in teaching and researching women's writing
Women Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Conference Series
Oxford, 5-6 September 2008
This conference is a continuation of the conference series which started in the UK in the 1990s, and which has more recently been taking place in the United States. The event is jointly organised by the German Subfaculty, University of Oxford, and the German section at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Our aim at this conference is to take stock of how far research into German women's writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries has come, examine the implicit assumptions which underlie our work, and discuss future directions it might take. We particularly welcome proposals for papers which take a broader and/or theoretical view, reflecting on the practice of researching and teaching women's writing of this period. Proposals from critics of German women's writing whose research field lies outside the period in question are also welcome.
Papers might address (but need not be limited to) one or more of the following questions:
Case studies of specific texts and/or authors which lend themselves to university syllabi are also welcome.
Papers should be no longer than 30 minutes and can be given in either English or German. Please send a 250-word abstract to both of the organisers, Anna Richards (ac.richards@bbk.ac.uk) and Helen Fronius (helen.fronius@exeter.ox.ac.uk) by 7 January 2008.
Readers, Writers, Salonnières: Female Networks in Europe, 1700-1900
Chawton House Library, Hampshire, 22nd and 23rd May 2008
jointly organised by the University of Southampton English Discipline, the University of Warwick French Department and Swansea University German Section
Keynote speakers:
Isabelle Bour (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III)
Helen Chambers (University of St Andrews)
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan)
The conference is one in a series being held in conjunction with the Netherlands Research Organisation (NWO) project "New Approaches to European Women's Writing" which is based at the University of Utrecht and is directed by Dr Suzan van Dijk.
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an explosion of interest in Europe in foreign languages and literatures, and recent research has begun to explore the part played by women in cross-cultural interchange. This conference seeks to examine the trans-national links between literary women in Europe in the period 1700-1900. To what extent were women writers from different countries aware of each other and each other's work? We invite papers which look at women who read or were inspired by the work of women abroad, as well as papers exploring actual links (for example, through correspondence, visits or contact in the salons) between women writers of different nationalities.
Papers should be a maximum of 20 minutes and should be given in English. Please send a 250-word abstract for the attention of the organisers Katherine Astbury, Hilary Brown and Gillian Dow to the conference administrator Sandy White: sw17@soton.ac.uk by 7th January 2008.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Women's Writing.
For further information on the NWO project, please see www.womenwriters.nl
See www.chawton.org for information about the location.
Gender and the Cold War
2008 GSA (October 2-5, St. Paul, Minnesota)
and AAASS Conference (November 20-23, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
The German Studies Association (GSA) and American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) Program Committees are organizing an interdisciplinary panel entitled "Gender and the Cold War" to be held at each association's 2008 conference. We encourage interested members of the GSA and the AAASS, from all disciplines, to submit brief (200-250 word) abstract. Please send proposal and brief bio electronically to both organizers by January 11, 2008: Michael Hickey mhickey@bloomu.edu and Barbara Kosta bkosta@u.arizona.edu
Witches and Queens, Whores and Libertines: Early Modern History on Screen
University of Glamrogan, Pontypridd/Cardiff; Date: 3-4 April 2008
Historical films and TV series set in the early modern period abound, yet historians have only recently begun to trouble themselves with these popular representations of the past. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to contribute to a critical appraisal of cinematic and televisual representations of early modern history (c.1500-c.1800) and what choices of subject matter and the way in which they are presented say about contemporary society and its relationship with the past.
Participants are invited to offer papers of about 20 minutes on the heritage-film debate, historical film and collective memory, the role of historical productions in making history and its debates accessible, adaptations of early modern texts, the use of historical documentaries, or any other aspect of early modern history on screen.
Jonathan Durrant
email: jdurrant@glam.ac.uk
website: http://history.research.glam.ac.uk//Conferences/witches/
Deadline for abstracts: January 11, 2008
Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923
September 10 – 12, 2008 at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Organisers: Ms Ingrid Sharp, Department of German, University of Leeds
i.e.sharp@leeds.ac.uk and Dr Matthew Stibbe, Department of History,
Sheffield Hallam University m.stibbe@shu.ac.uk
Following on from the publication in April 2007 of the volume A. S. Fell and I. E. Sharp (eds.) The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19, which deals with the responses of the international women's movement to the First World War, the focus of this conference will be on the response, experience and representation of the organised women's movement and individual activists to the aftermath of the war in the years 1918 and 1923. The approach is broadly historical, but we would welcome proposals from a range of different disciplines, such as Cultural and Gender/Women's Studies, English, Sociology, Modern Languages and of course History. By bringing together scholars working on organised women and individual activists in national and transnational contexts, we hope to make a distinctive and worthwhile contribution to this area of studies.
For a more detailed call for papers, see:
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=158830
Please send proposals, including working title and brief description of your paper (max. 500 words), by 15 January 2008.
Violence and European Identitiy
German Studies Association Conference, October 2 - 5, 2008, St. Paul, Minnesota
In current attempts to construct productive European identities, histories of and experiences with violence play a major role. We seek papers that engage with the intersections of representations of violence and constructions of the "new" Europe in popular media, film, literature, art, or music. We encourage papers that provide comparative or transnational analyses.
Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
Please send your 200 word paper proposal to the panel organizer by January 15th: Laurie Taylor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, lktaylor@german.umass.edu
Eating the Nation
German Studies Association, October 2 - 5, 2008 St. Paul, Minnesota
This panel seeks papers that engage with the ways in which food is used to construct or challenge notions of the (German) nation. We are interested in papers that engage with a range of "texts"on this topic: cookbooks, media, literature, film.
Topics might include:
- Appropriation of ethnic cultures through food
- Regional cuisines in relationship to the nation
- Constructions of the body and the nation via food
- Food and consumption
- "Traveling" food and cosmopolitanism
- Food and the environment
- Food and war
- Food as status symbol
Please send your paper proposal of no more than 200 words to the panel organizer by January 15, 2008: Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee Knoxville at mstehle@utk.edu
Women, War, and Revolution Before 1912: History and Fiction
An interdisciplinary panel for the German Studies Association, Minneapolis, MN 2008
Analyses and interpretations of historical and literary representations of female participation, engagement, or activism in wars and revolutions before WWI. Fictional accounts, historical figures, and/or personal narratives (as well as other genres). Possible topics: representations of women as warriors or as victims accounts of/by women of political activism, agitation, advocacy for/against war or revolution women and pacifism responses to “German” wars, uprising, and revolutions “German” participation in or involvement with the American and French revolutions
Please submit 1 page abstracts by January 31, 2008 to BOTH Marjanne Goozé mgooze@uga.edu and Waltraud Meierhofer waltraud-maierhofer@uiowa.edu
Gendering the Fair: A Collection of Histories of Women and Gender at World’s Fairs
The editors of this anthology invite submissions from scholars whose work analyses the participation of women at world’s fairs (as organizers, performers, employees, fairgoers, etc.) or whose work offers gender analyses of world’s fairs. Research tracking the significance of fairs as gendered spaces or calling attention to the gendered nature of the experience of attending a world’s fair, as well as scholarship that explores eroticism and sexuality at world’s fairs or manliness/masculinity is strongly encouraged. Works that focus on world’s fairs held outside the U.S. are especially welcome, as are those that interrogate the nexus between gender, class, race, and national identity formation at world’s fairs held in the U. S. and abroad.
Send one e-copy to tjboiss@uakron.edu , and two print copies of your manuscript (15-25 pages, doubled spaced), with end notes and complete references page formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style to Associate Professor TJ Boisseau, 115 Salt Marsh Cove, Edgecomb, ME 04556 by February 1, 2008